June 07th, 2022

Calls to action on guns

Bipartisan group of senators announces
agreement on gun-safety legislation

​• The agreement announced Sunday has the support of 10 Republican senators (June 12, CNN)
• What's in the bipartisan gun deal and what's not (June 12, CNN)
• House passes sweeping gun reform package, though it's unlikely to move in the Senate;
 Rep. Kurt Schrader was one of two Democrats voting against it  (June 8, CNN)

During his testimony June 8
before a House committee,
​Dr. Roy Guerrero described the carnage he witnessed in the Uvalde emergency room the day of the shootings at nearby Robb Elementary School. 'Innocent children all over the country today are dead because laws and policy allow people to buy weapons before they’re legally old enough to even buy a pack of beer,' he said. 'They’re dead because restrictions have been allowed to lapse.'

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grader who survived the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, and Felix and Kimberly Rubio, whose daughter was killed in the shooting, delivered emotional testimony June 8 before a House committee hearing on gun violence. Kimberly Rubio wants Congress to strengthen background checks, enact
red-flag laws, raise the mininum age to 21 for purchasing AR 15s and repeal gun manufacturers' liability immunity.

​​Garnell Whitfield Jr., son of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, who was killed when a gunman opened fire in a racist attack on Black shoppers in Buffalo, New York, challenged Congress on June 7 to act against the 'cancer of white supremacy' and the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. 

Actor Matthew McConaughey delivers impassioned remarks June 7 at the White House press briefing, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in his native Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control.

​In an address to the nation
​June 2, President Biden urged Republicans to join Democrats on gun-related legislation.

​Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., asks his Republican colleagues to find a common denominator to do something about mass shootings after massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

​In the aftermath of the Uvalde school shootings, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr puts basketball aside and calls out Senate Republicans, asking, 'When are we going to do something?'

• Wyden says GOP faces 'question of our time' on gun bills (May 31, Oregon Capital Insider)